If I were a Becker Backer, I wouldn't be happy. Not with the half-hearted campaign, Becker ran for the U.S. Senate, or the lack of support for candidates representing the movement he founded.
There have been so many times when I wished you could come back again to the United States. I figured you could find your way to Winnipeg. Then you could take a bus down here to “the Forks.” I think you would like to see the grounds of the University of North Dakota as well as our city parks.
Marvin Lepp is a Bismarck Republican who, if elected secretary of state, says he will focus on the integrity and transparency of North Dakota's elections.
"Last year at this time, when we already were watching the U.S. Drought Monitor turn redder and redder every week, we would have danced with joy to see even one of the storms we've had this year. But right now, at this minute, can it please stop?"
For all the Sturm und Drang from lawmakers over Burgum supposedly violating the "separation of powers" by meddling in legislative races, they couldn't muster enough votes to even put some reporting requirements on committees like Burgum during their session last year.
Jeffrey Powell, the Democratic-NPL candidate for secretary of state, talks about his campaign on this episode of Plain Talk, as does Republican U.S. Senate candidate Riley Kuntz.